Day Jobs
Group Exhibition
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford
Through July 21, 2024

One of the typical measures of success for artists is the ability to quit their day jobs and focus full time on making art. Yet these roles are not always an impediment to an artist’s career. This exhibition, which includes the work of Richard Artschwager, Gretchen Bender, Barbara Kruger and Frank Stella, among many others, illuminates how day jobs can spur creative growth by providing artists with unexpected new materials and methods, working knowledge of a specific industry that becomes an area of artistic interest or critique, or a predictable structure that opens space for unpredictable ideas.

Richard Artschwager
Cornered: Celebrating the Artist’s Centennial
February 10–March 23, 2024
Berlin

The work of Richard Artschwager has always defied categories and continues to be marked by a spirit of nonconformity. In honor of the artist’s centennial, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present a solo exhibition of Artschwager’s work at the Berlin gallery. Displaying works from his “Crates” (1995) and Splatter (2000–08) series, Formica sculptures (1964–2008) and a large-scale painting (2000) alongside an exuberant Exclamation Point (2008), the show offers a synoptic overview of a practice concerned with the habits and mechanics of looking.

Richard Artschwager
New Mexico
March 11–June 21, 2020
Berlin

Bringing together colored pastel drawings, this exhibition will explore the artist’s newfound interest in landscapes that arose during the last years before his death in 2013. These works have been rarely exhibited since their creation, and provide a unique insight into the artist’s approach to colour and subject matter in his later life.

Richard Artschwager
Portraits!
April 27–June 22, 2013
Berlin

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are delighted to present an exhibition of works by the American artist Richard Artschwager. The show, which was on display at the London gallery of Sprüth Magers from February to March, focuses on the sculpture Exclamation Point (Orange) (2010), which is exhibited alongside a recent series of portraits, which also includes the artist's latest works.

Richard Artschwager
Portraits!
February 14–March 9, 2013
London

One of the most important artists to emerge during the twentieth century, Artschwager’s playful and diverse oeuvre has influenced generations of younger artists by challenging assumptions about perception and the aesthetic, material and spatial experience of art and the everyday. Spanning over forty years, Artschwager’s practice explored the mediums of sculpture, painting and drawing in order to understand the relationship between art and objects, and the environment they inhabit.

Source Codes
Kenneth Anger, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Bruce Conner, Richard Hamilton, David Lamelas, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Lucas Samaras, John Stezaker, Paul Thek
June 26–August 29, 2009
Berlin

Source Codes juxtaposes a selection of works by a number of artists and filmmakers from Europe and America who mapped essential conceptual groundwork in the 1960s and 1970s and whose work remains influential to many artists today By examining new ways to rethink and translate visual information and cultural codes in the gaps between Minimalism and Pop Art, and through an interest in process-based performative practice, their work has exerted significant influence on younger artists in a variety of ways.

Richard Artschwager
May 2–August 29, 2009
Berlin

Since the 1960s American artist Richard Artschwager has deployed to challenge assumptions about perception and the aesthetic, material and spatial experience of art and the everyday. His paintings and sculptures assembled in this exhibition provide an ideal introduction to the range within Artschwager’s practice, and the unity of philosophical enquiry which binds these diverse works together. Artschwager’s work is typically characterised by playful and provocative slippages between different media.

Mondi Possibili
Richard Artschwager, Benjamin Bergmann, Thomas Demand, Thea Djordjadze, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Claus Föttinger, Thomas Grünfeld, Stefan Kern, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Franz West, Martin Wöhrl
January 15–March 17, 2007
Cologne

Richard Artschwager
Sculpture
September 8–November 4, 2006
Munich

Since the early 1960s, Richard Artschwager, born in Washington D.C. in 1923, creates sculpture evoking associations with common place objects such as furniture and household appliances. Firstly these works were shown at Leo Castelli, New York in 1965 and have attained greatest international recognition since then. For the first time in art history, Richard Artschwager uses do-it-yourself materials like Formica and Celotex becoming exemplary for future artist generations.

Richard Artschwager
October 29–December 23, 2004
Cologne